Lot 141
  • 141

An American bronze Sabbath candelabrum, Ludwig Y. Wolpert, New York, 1970

Estimate
5,000 - 7,000 USD
bidding is closed

Description

  • stamped below nozzle: Wolpert, Tobe Pascher Workshop, and Jewish Museum
  • bronze, wood
  • height with base 17 in.
  • 43.2cm
designed in the form of Hebrew text, mounted on a wood base with plaque

Condition

edges with some wear to gilding, otherwise good
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Catalogue Note

Text translates to "Come, let us sing unto the Lord. Let us exult before the Rock of our salvation" [Psalm 95:1].

Ludwig Yehuda Wolpert (1900 - 1981) was an Israeli-American goldsmith and designer, born in Germany. In 1956 he emigrated to the United States, where he headed the Tobe Pascher Workshop for Modern Jewish Art at the Jewish Museum in New York.